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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11
PERrLExrrr is the father Of profanity.

IT is estimated that there is one cow to
every four persons In this country. The
young lady in the red shawl always gets
her share
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

BEST, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. Soc
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

The dude is not as useless as some peo-
pie try to make out He is an excellent
warning Pitts6ssrgh Dispdteh
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

IT is when the dramatist is most actively
and prcfitably employed that he is looking
for a situation. -Aerchd,lt Trdyeker
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

THE boom of the fire-cracker is a relic Of
our pops Whitehall Times
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

A BURLINGTON policeman declares that
he had to handle about as many pieces Of
male matter as they do at the post Office
BuriHQton Free Press
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

aTHEsx,n said the fisherman, as he
pointed to his wares, "represent my net
profits.s
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

NEXT to nothing-the figure one on q
ten dollar bill-G Y. Commercial Aduer-
tiseT.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

"THERE is plenty Of room at the top"
said the hotel clerk as he ordered tho
porter to put up another cot on the roof.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11
PopuIar Education.

We sympathize with the feeling which
often leads citizens 70 boast that no child
born in this country need grow up in igno-
nance, and yet it is fact that many people
who have learned to read and write have
never taught themselves to think A man
who suffered from catarrh, cons Imption,
bronchitis, scrofula, or "iver complaint, ("
might read, till his eyes dropped out, how
these and many other diseases have been
cured by DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery, but if he did not take the lesson to
himself and test the virtues of this great
medicine, his Sme would be thrown away.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11
aUutold Agony from Catarrk."

Prot. W. HAUsSER, the famous mesmerfst.
of Ithaca. ". Y, writes: "Some ten years ago
/ suffered untold agony from chronic nasal
catarrh. NV family ply sician gave me up an
incurable. and said I must die. My case WA
such a bad one, that every day, towards sun
set, INV voice would become so hoarse l could
barely speak above whisper. In the fnornIlS
almost strangie me. By the use of DIR. Sage9
Catarrh Remedy, in three months, was wen
man. and the cure has been permanent
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

THE Frazer Axle Grease is the best in the
world. Sold everywhere. Use it.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

"RgFINED families" are said to be draw
ing the line at paper covered noTels.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

A PRETTY woman's bang is something to
q door
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

PERHAPS you never thought of it but tho
most touching thing in nature is . dogs
nose-7hs Colonel
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11
las ali your liver-that's very plain.

"AH me"l sighed Potts, I'm tired OF living,
The world Is hollow, ambitions vain"
"Come now! said his chum, II know the symp
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

More than 100000 immigrants
have arrived in this country since 1873.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

You need not sufer. for help is easy;
Perce's Pellets go right to the place.
"A friend TO the bilious / well might call them
There's nothing better; they II suit your case"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

THERE Is q great difference between q
busy man and card player. For example,
the busy man often has his hands full,
while q gambler often holds full hands.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

let's"
No more he mourneth his haplesS lot!
His face is cheerful, his heart Is lighisome,
His melancholy il quite forgotl
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

AN erOnaut generally lives high.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-11

born to blush unseen. "-Negroea
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-14
A Monster Stone Dam.

A remarkable dam is about to be
constructed by water company at the
San Mateo canyon. four miles from San
Mateo, Cal, in order to form a reser-
voir. The canyon is very narrow and
steep, and fifteen feet below the bottom
is a solid rock, on which the foundation
of the dam will rest. The structure
will be 10 feet high. us feet wide at
the base, 20 feet at the top and 700 feet
in length. 1t will be the largest stone
dam ever known to have been built.
The dixie will have a curvature of eighty
feet and the convex side will be up
stream. The material will be new
sort of concrete composed of stone.
The walls will be perfectly smooth.
The reservoir that will be formed by it
and the adjacent hills. will be about
eight miles in length and $50 feet deep
at the deepest places. Its capacity
will be about $4,000. 900, 900 gallons.
The water will be conveyed by tunnels
to the city of San Francisco.-San
Francisco Call.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-14
Understood English.

A lady tells the following snake story.
Going through the reptile department
of the Jardin DIES Fiantes with a party
escorted by a distinguished French
savant, they stopped before the cage of
4 large rattlesnake. The snake lay
motionless, apparently asleep. Delay
ing behind their party. Mrs. Clark and
a friend began to speak in English. To
their surprise the snake moved, lifted
its head and gave every sign of interest
in their conversation. When they re-
joined their party they remarked that
the snake understood English. The
whole party then returned to the cage.
The snake was apparently asleep again.
They conversed in French, but the snake
made no movement; then the ladies
began to speak in English. The snake
started, lifted its head, and showed the
same alertness as before at the sounds.
The rattlesnake proved, on inquiry, to
have come from Virginia. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-14

he presumed the Englishman would
throw him with the greatest ease. as
he professed no skill whatever To this
the bully sneeringly replied that he could
not only throw him, but any other cursed
Yankee they would bring on. This fling
at the Yankees nettled Joe at once, for,
although conscious of his own strength,
he cared little what taunts might be
applied to his own person, vet when his
nation came to be the object of such
remarks, his blood boiled at once, and
he determined, right or wrong. to show
the sneeriug bully that Yankee proves
was not to be lightly esteemed. Yield
ing to his patriotic feelings he immedi-
ately announced his willingness, and
they ''took hold" The first trial WIS
at what is termed EARNS length" and
Joe soon found that his antagonist was
no ''carpet knight to be handled in
tho gingerly manner with which it had
been his wont to treat his opponents of
the ring. At the first onset Joe was
brought to his knee. Immediately
springing up. he confessed himself
fairly ''filed, and then requested that
they should take trial ut 5ack-hold.
To this the bully assented. We have
often heard Joe say that previous to
this time he never could discover any
difference in the strength of men; but
that now he felt he must exert all his
power. Selling hold of his antagonist
he bowed himself with all his strength
end squeezed the vain boa>ter to his
breast. The Englishman gave one
shrek, his arms loosed taeir hold, his
whole frame quivered, and when Joe
him from his grasp the bully
fell, with eyes protruding and blood
gushing from his nostrils, dead at his
feet!-C Chicago Herald
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-14
The Care of the Ear.

Under ordinary conditions the healthy
ear does not need to be protected from
cold; only during extreme cold or
stormy or rainy weather ought cotton
wool to be inserted into children's ears
especially. The same precaution must
be taken in the case of every ear pre-
disposed to Inflammation. All persons
whose membranes are perforated ought
to protect their ears with cotton wool.
The entrance of cold fluids into any ear
must always be prevented; and so, while
bathing or diving the ear ought to be
plugged. Patients with perforations OF
the membrane should be very careful
in this respect, as violent Inflammation
may be caused by the entrance of colo
water.-Iedseo- CAirur0ieal Journal.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-14
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

William E. Chandler is the Red
Shirt of the American Sioux.-B0ston
Globe.
There is to be in the near future
a terrible rivalry between Senator
Sherman and General Fairchild. Sher-
mans bloody shirt has somewhat lost
its novelty, but those three kinds of
palsy which the General keeps in his
waistcoat pocket are ''gems of purest
ray serene. ~ Y Herald.
The Presidential boom of Old
Solidity Allison, the Dubuque heavy
weight, may properly enough be de-
scribed as a contingent remainder.
That is, it is contingent upon Mr..
Biaine's ha7ing no use for his own
boom and handing the leavings of it
to the Iowan. Mr. Allison has no
present vested interest, but his expec-
tations are fine.-N y Sun.
The rate at which New York
and Brooklyn Republicans are forsak-
ing that party and joining the De-
mocracy, threatens to depopulate the
bloody shirt organization. The alb
surdity of raking up issues that were
settled more than quarter of cent
ury ago. evidently does not meet the
approval of the more intelligent adj
herants of the party of great moral
ideas. "-Lockport (M ~ Union.
There is no installing the state
of the National mind SO far as all at
tempts to revive sectionalism are con-
cerned. The people will not have it.
Whether it is Sherman in Ohio, futile
in Iowa, Rosser in Virginia or Fair
child in Wisconsin, every effort to blow
the cmbers of the old strife into a
flame is received with q general public
Indifference that is simply chilling
Boston Globe.
The wild and ferociOus war
whoop of Mr.. Halstead, the Cincinnati
man who didn't 90 to the war, but who
wanted Sherman turned out of the ar
my for insanity and Grant for drunk
enness, and who wanted somebody to
take Abraham Lincoln by the heels and
heat his brains out against a wall, is
heard even above the frenzied screech-
es of Foraker. Fairchild and Private
Dalzell. The flag incident has been
as salt upon his abraided cuticle. The
believing of the casual kline of ths
pennyroyal variety has not been so
acute since the stock of fodder gave out
in 1SS4-N Y. World.
The Fairchilds, Tuttles, Hal.
steads and Forakers of disunionism
might study, with profit, the words of
Edmund Burke: because half dozen
grasshoppers under a fern make the
field ring with their importunate clink,
while thousands of great cattle re-
posing beneath the shadow of the
British oak, chew the cud and are 81
lent, pray do not imagine that those
who make the noise are the only in
habitants of the field; that, of course,
they are many in number; or, that,
after all, they are other than the little
shriveled, meager, hopping, though
loud and troublesome, insects of the
hour. albany IN T. Argus.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-14
THE SOUTHERN FLAGS.
After Thoughts Which Appeal Forcibly to
an Intelligent Mind.

an Intelligent Mind
Now that there is no danger of the
battle flags being returned, we may
perhaps carefully discuss the whole sit
uation in regard to them. We have
held from the first that 1t would be a
great mistake to return them. We
should rather have all the battle flags
of both sides turned over to the United
States Government, not to be put
away where they would decay and do
nobody any good, but to be kept and
preserved from decay, as mementoes of
a past age, when the present age be-
comes past age.
In the heat of the moment good
deal has been said which those who
said it would now be glad to recall.
There is no occasion for any deadly
strife over the matter. There was no
'plot" of any kind. No Southern
State has imperiously demanded its
battle flags.
The leading Southern newspaper. the
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-14
Mexican
Mustang
Linimeni
CU7ES
THIS GOOD OLD STANDBY

This GOOD OLD STANDBY
sccomplishes for everybody exactly wnst isclarned
fori One Of the FOR the great popularity of
the Mustang Linjment Is found In its universal
applicability. Everybody needs such medicine
The Luukermrn needs Il IN case OF accident
The Housewife needs IL for general family us..
The Cnnnler needs IL for his teams and his men.
The Mechanic needs it always his WORK
bench.
The Miner needs It In case Of emergency.
The Pisneer needsit-can't get along without &c.
The Farmer needs Il IN his house, his stable.
and his stock yard.
The Steamboat man or the Boatman neeA
It In liberal supply afioatand ashore.
The Herse-fnncier needs lit u his bess
friend and safest reliance.
The Stock-grower needs tit win save him
thousands Of dollars and q world Of trouble.
The Railroad man needs IL and wiz need 70 81
long as his Life Is round Of accidents and dangerk
The Baekwoodsmnn needs It. There Is nos6r
ing Ike it a. antidote for the dangers 70 hsss
Limb and comfort which surround the pioneer.
The Merchant needs &c about bis store among
his employees. Accidents viii happen, and when
these come the Mustang Eminent ID wanted asonees
Keep . Bottle In the House. lis the best %
economy.
Keep Bottle In the Factory. Its fanedi.se
in case Of accident pain and loss OF wages
Keep q Bssfis Always In she stable fss
sse whss wantsd.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-14
A Young man having refused I

"A young man having refused to
give aims to an importunate beggar,
his companion said: You might as
well give that vagabond all you've
got, Tom. 1t won't make any differ
ence hundred years hence;" to which
Tom replied: won't it, though. my
boy? Why, it will make hundred
years difference at the very least ~
~ Y Led0eT.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-14

Writing letter is, to many people.
an irksome task, but it isn't half SO
irksome as it is to hear y lawyer read
ing your letter aloud FIVE years after
ward in open court-JournaI OF E.iXcs
ton.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-14
THAT MISERABLE "IF."

That MISERABLE ar"
L
She has grace,
And face
That attention attracts.
And she socially plays the first role;
And no one would be
So happy as She
III she only could hide that big mole;
Ee has wealth
He has health,
And can have. at command,
ANY thing that his fancy may please;
And no one would be
So happy as he
II his pants didn't bag at the kneesi
We are all
Short and tall.
Young and old, rich and poor
Yes, we re all o. US in the same sllf;
How happy we'd be
'T'is easy 10 see
Were IL not for that miserable IT.
columbus Dispateh.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-28
WHY THIS ALLIANCE WITH THE
RAILROADS.!


The Legislative Committee Ofthe Knights
of Labor have sent q letter to President
CLEVELAND urging him to veto the Inter
State Commerce bill. They object to
/ The commission clause. ,. the arbi-
trary power conferred upon the commission.
3. The exclusive jurisdiction given to the
Federal Courts to hear and determine
causes arising under the act 1. The
acknowledged uncertainty rs to the mean
ing of nearly all of the provisions Of the
measure.
IL is hard to understand such an antipO-
dal alliance with the railroads. One would
have thought the X. OF l.. would have been
the most earnest champions Of the bill, as
a curb upon monopoly.
True, there are no doubt, very serious
defects in the bill. But it is the best that
could be passed under the circumstances.
The Knights are going on the principle OF
the traveller in the desert, who, almost fam
ished, refused an offered halfloaf because he
couldn't get it all.
We think the best principle to 80 on Is
that if we cannot have things perfect, then
lust rs good rs we can get them. We had
better take the Interstate Commerce bill
as it is and improve it as Congress, the
railroads and the people learn by exper'
fence. This is certainly infinitely better
than to do nothing, as the h. of l.. com
mittee advises.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-28
YESTERDAYS ELECTION.


MAYOR, CHARLES W. SEABRIGHT.
City Sergeant, PORTER SMITH.
Wharfmaster, JOHN Il. CROCEARD.
How do these suit you? 1t is needless
to say that the Democrats are perfectly
satisfied rs far rs these three are concerned,
as the Republicans have to be. II was 4
good haul
Somehow or other the vindication oI
Mayor GRURR, as the IaisliigcHeer asked,
has proved q boomerang in the RePubli'
can camp. PORTER SMITH gets such q
large majority he scarcely knows what to
do with it.
But the Democrats lose the Council.
All. there's the rub. This falls like wet
blanket upon the glories of the day and is
a loss that the Democrats will regret ioI
the coming two years.
This election has been a very holly con
tested one, Incoming a bitter personal
fight in many places. The bitter attacks
made on MesSrS. SENERIGHT and SMITH
have resulted i'm votes to them instead o.
loss. Mr.. THONER made one of the braveSj
fights for the clerkship that has ever been
made. Notwithstanding the fact that Sc
popular aud experienced man as Mr.
BowEEs was his rival, he was defeated by
less than fifty votes. The large vote given
PORTER SMITH is handsome Endorsement
of his administration.
Now that the election is over we want
our newly elected officials to get ready t.
give us a clean, cOmmOnsenSe admlnlStra
ton of municipal affairs. We shall ex
pect it.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-28
Of orr honorable torsfathers.-r. Rloasaa!

of our honorable forefathers.-H. Pleasant
Register.
There are six Democratic papers pub
lished In this Senatorial district. The &C
ton of Chew and Lucas in staying out oil
caucus is endorsed by one of them-Jlm
Mason's Democrat!
Monster petitions are being circulated
in Jefferson county, disappearing oil the
course of Messrs Lucas and Chew In re-
naming out of Caucus, the voters have no
desire to dictate for whom the delegates
NAV vote; but they object to usages oil the
party being violated. Loyal Jener-
son never iavors anything un-Demo;
cratic.
One-fourth Of the Democratic members
of the present Legislature, have, like the
three tailors OF London, proclaimed them
selves "We the people, " and have arrayed
themselves against Democratic usage, by
refusing to 90 into caucus for the purpose
of agreeing upon a candidate tor U. ).
Senator. This opposition seems the more
Inconsistent by reason of the fact that
amongst those who may be found in
the misrepresentation" minority
are those who have, during the
present session ofthe Legislature, gone into
caucus to select officers of the two Houses.
We regret to find that Hon. Geo. Z. Price,
who accepted the caucus nomination for
the presidency Of the Senate, was antagO:
nistic to a caucus being held with regard
to the Senatorial matter.
Do One-fourth of the fifty Democratic
members arrogate to themselves more
intelligence and sagacity than is possessed
by the other three-fourths? Or are they
determined to defeat Camden at any and
all hazard?- .MdrtinsbUrg Statesman.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-28

The Republican Senate has again, by q
vote of seventeen to thirty-Onc, rejected
the nomination of J. c. MATTHEWS, Of
Albany, Y. Y, rs Recorder of Deeds of the
District of Columbia. 1t will be recol'
lected that Mr.. MATHEWS was rejected
by the Senate at its last session and shortly
alterward was re-appOinted by President
CLEVELAND.
And Mr.. MATHEWS is n eOlOred man.
And the Republicans are the great
friends of the cOlored man.
And this is the way they show theil
friendship.
IL is understood that President CLEvE'
LAND will now appoint some colOred man
from the West, to this position, and SCI
whether he will be able to run the gaunt'
let of = Republican Senate.
There seems to be two kinds Of sympa-
thy in Republican ranks, one for election
times and one for every day. The sympa'
thy of election times goes out with won
deriul magnanimity toward the cOlOred
man. But when he has east his ballot and
there is any patronage to be given out the
sympathy goes to the other fellow and the
colored man is left out in the cold.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-28
THE SENATORIAL QUESTION
What Two of Our Exchanges Say on the
Matter.

Matter.
When Governor Wilson beat Mr.. FaulE-
uer fol the nomination for Governor, Mr..
Faulkner's friends turned out and with
their influence and money helped to elect
Mr.. Wilson, and Senator Camden was one
of the men who helped. Now, Mr.. Wilson
Is trying to keep men from abiding by the
caucus which nominated Mr.. Camden for
Senator Is this good Democracy, Governor:
Senator Geo. T. Price was very anxious
and willing to 20 into n caucus TO receive
the nomination for himself rs President oil
the Senate. Now ne seems tishy about
abiding by the Senatorial caucus. This
matter will demand hearing and q set
Element hereafter" Mr.. Price.
Mr.. Camden has received over twO-thirds
of all the Democratic vote. There men,
thirty-Seyen of them, were not bought. 1t
would be a thing easier said and easier
done, to buy thirteen than thirty-Sevea,
besides men are not often hired to do right
but sometimes they are hired 10 do wrong.
These thirty-seyen men have acted and
abided by the time-hOnOred customs OF
their party-of all parties. In accordance
with what custom do the abSenteeS from
the caucus propose TO act?
Ii party misfortune or defeat should
come, those voting for the nominee can
look their constituents in the fare and say,
We voted in accordance with the customs
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-28

wElike the course of Mr.. c. 5. WhTTE,
of Romney, in signing his name to his
communication in answer to Wv" The
public always place most confidence IN
anything that appears over the name OF
the author, and the REGISTER would
rather publish such communications.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-28

IT is to be regetted that Mr.. ALFRED
CALDWELL was not returned to Council
by the voters of the First ward. He Is
well veysed in all matters pertaining to
municipal government, is conservative and
has yigilantly guarded the city 5 interests
The Democracy can i'll afford to lose such
a leader in Council as Mr.. CALDWELL.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-28
Catarrh Is Not a Blood Disease,

No matter what parts it may fually af;
feet. catarrh always starts in the head, and
belongs to the head There is no mystery
about the origin of this direful disease. II
begins in a neglected cold. One of the
kind that is ''sure to be better in q few
davis" Thousands of victims know no"
il Is by sad experience. Ely's Cream Balm
cnres colds in the head and catarTh in all
its stages. Not q snuff Or liquid.